[win] cannot open another notebook

[Gregor Rosenauer]

When trying to open another Notebook and selecting one from the list or creating a new one, pressing OK only closes the selection dialog, but Zim does not open the notebook; it stays on the old notebook.

In the log, an error shows up:

ERROR: Failed running: ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Zim Desktop Wiki\\zim.exe', 'file:///D:/Dokumente/wiki/ToolEvaluierung', '--no-daemon']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zim\applications.pyo", line 122, in spawn
GError: Hilfsprogramm (Invalid argument) konnte nicht ausgeführt werden

(last message should translate to "helper program (...) cannot be executed")

Using Windows-installer Zim-setup-0.46_2010-04-13.exe on Windows 7 64 bit.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

This looks like something that is caused by the Gtk runtime environment.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Ok, checked the gtk source code and this error is caused when the following executable can not be found "gspawn-win32-helper.exe" this executable should be included in the gtk installation directory.

We may need to force set the path so this file can be found correctly.

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

I've confirmed this isn't a problem with the installer. If you run Zim with all of GTK's global installation in your $PATH, this problem still occurs. :^(

I might take a look at this later, but Jaap I'm assigning it back to you.

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

I mean if you run it from source, on Windows, ignoring build_win32 and its output -- in this case it still fails to open another notebook by launching "zim.py --no-daemon" whereas if you run the .exe build it fails to run "[path ...]zim.exe --no-daemon"

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

** WORKAROUND **

If running from the Windows .exe package, you should have "*.zim" registered in your desktop to be handled by zim.exe, by default. Browse to the notebook you want to open and double-click the .zim file.

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

Problem seems to have been solved! Not sure exactly what solved it -- maybe I fixed a build script earlier, or maybe it's because some of the libraries I used to build today are only weeks old releases.

I verify that gspawn-win32-helper.exe ends up in my build folder, and when I install and run the final package, I am able to open two notebooks using File -> Open.